Proceedings of the United States National Museum Volume 54

Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1919. Ex-Library. Near-Fine. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition. 8vo. Cloth. 653 p. Illustrated. Proceedings of the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum. Includes extensive illustrated articles on a variety of flora and fauna from around the globe, including new West Indian fossil land shell; marine shells from Panama; Land shells of the Apiphragmophora traskii group; Fossil plants from Bolivia & Eastern Andes; Fossil plants from the late Tertiary of Oklahoma; Chitons taken by the United States steamer Albatross in Northwest Pacific, 1906; isopods; multibrachiate ophiuran of the family Gorgonocephalidae from the Caribbean; North American fossibl beetles, cockroaches, and tsetse flies; Chrysodomus and other mollusks from the north Pacific; Nomenclature of mollusks of the family Turritidae; Altitudinal distribution of Entomos straca in Colorado; Lepidoptera of Mexico; African parasitic hymenoptera; Macruroid dish from Hawaiian Islands; skeleton of Stegasaurus stenops in the National Museum; fishes from the Yalu River, China; National Museum Hopi Indian collection; Calcareous sponges collected in 1906 aboard the Albatross in Northwest Pacific; Plainview, Texas meteorite; Virgin Islands mammals and reptiles; Java Sea island birds; leach petrel; flies of Guam and the Philippines; Strepsiptera; birds of northeastern Siberia; fishes of Owens River, California; Hawaiian lizards; fishes of Mohave River, California; bones of birds of St. Thomas and St. Croix; anatomy of Nyctibius; mimetite, thaumasite, and wavellite; nuculites from the Silurian formations of Washington County, Maine; and more. Only indication of ex-library status is bookplate from the Sturgis Library in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Near fine..